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Cairo Transport App Challenge
 Read more about the challenge and interact with the community from the website: TAppCairo.GDGCairo.org And Hashtag: #TAppCairo And the platform from which you have to sign up to be able to participate in the competition and submit your Apps: cairo.hackathome.com Continue reading more and join the discussion from the mailing list: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/gdg-cairo/CAwYuNnLKFA/discussion Press: Official GDG Cairo Announcment: http://blog.gdgcairo.org/2012/09/cairo-transport-app-challenge.html The Next Web: http://thenextweb.com/africa/2012/09/19/cairo-transport-appchallenge-hopes-find-solution-one-egypts-top-plagues Daily News Egypt: http://dailynewsegypt.com/2012/09/17/fixing-cairos-traffic-woes |
[Non-GDG] Devoxx 2012
 When? November 12th to 13th, the university program, and November 14th to 16th the conference. Where? Antwerp - Belgium. Keep yourself updated and follow Devoxx on twitter: http://twitter.com/devoxx Or you can subscribe to the Devoxx newsletter: http://www.devoxx.com/display/DV12/Newsletter GDG Cairo is an official partner community for Devoxx 2012. |
Google Apps Developer Challenge 2012
 The Google Apps Developer Challenge is a contest designed to motivate and reward entrants
who develop applications that are based on Google Apps and Google Drive that are original
and relevant to the developer's home region. It’s time to show the world what you can do with Google Apps and the Google Drive API. Developers in 6 regions across the world will win prizes that include Chromebooks and up to $20,000 USD. Want to start hacking? Join our Google Apps Developer Event to know more about the challenge, how to submit and get wider look of new Google tools that you can use in your project. Where?
Safir Hotel Cairo 22 Reffaa Street El Messaha Square Dokki When? Friday, August 3, 2012. From 3:30PM To 8:00PM. Event Agenda? 3:30 to 4:00 Registration. Confirmed invitations ONLY! 4:00 to 5:00 Google Apps Script / Rana Kortam Google 5:00 to 6:00 Google Drive API / AMahdy GDGCairo Founder 6:00 to 6:30 How to submit your app 6:30 to 8:00 Iftar and project ideas open discussion Have a question about the challenge? |
[Non-GDG] BlackBerry 10 Jam Dubai
 It's going to take place July 10th, a packed full day of sessions and it will be a very nice opportunity to take an overview on Blackberry 10 dev. You may also get qualified to receive a BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha Device. BlackBerry also offered for GDG Cairo members, a way to facilitate getting the VISA to attend the conference, just send an email to: bbjamconferences@rim.com with your application requests. |
[GSA] Extended Deadline Date of GSA Program 2012/2013
 For more information about GSA Program 2012/2013 and the application timeline, please follow this post: [GSA] GSA Program 2012/2013 |
Google+ API Hackathon
 Do you have the talent to learn about a new API, invent a cool thing out of it, in one only day? Win cool prizes too? (Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon). Prepare yourself, Wednesday June 20th from 9AM to 5PM. Bring your laptop and your internet stick, it's also recommended to bring a power source just in case! Where? Hotel Safir, in front of El-Misaha Sqr, Al-Dokki. Prize? It's really big! come and see it in action! This event is sponsored by  It's very recommended to read about JSON before coming. Please note that only confirmed invitations will be able to join the hackathon, registration below: |
AAC Semi Finals in Egypt
 Read previous announcement from here.
The winner will receive an Android Phone, and will be able to submit his App/Course to the final round. He will get promoted as well at the Google I/O event.
Follow #aacEgypt on Google+ and Twitter, the event will be live streamed. Want to attend? Please register from here: http://goo.gl/249f4
Please join us to congratulate the finalists from Egypt (Ordered Alphabetically):
The next step, tomorrow Tuesday June 12th, the judging panel is going to take place to select the best one to represent Egypt in the African Finals. More details about the competition and sponsors could be found here: http://androidchallenge.org
Where? Cilantro الكلية الحربية
When? 04:30 PM to 09:00 PM
Who?
The developers are invited to present tomorrow what they have done in front of our judges, but anyone from the community is also welcome to join. So if you feel yourself interested to see what they have done, and join the community judgement to determine who's going to be the winner (it's counted!), then you are more than welcome, just be on time!
Meet our judges:
Each competitor will be given 30 minutes:
05 minutes --- Prepare the laptop and the presentation.
10 minutes --- Presentation!
05 minutes --- Questions from judges.
10 minutes --- Questions from the community.
Judging Criteria for Apps:
Judging Criteria for Courses:
How it's going to work?
There will be one winner for Apps. As for courses, all criteria must be met, we may not have a winner at all if any of those criteria are not met.
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Transport Hackathon - Cairo
 It's a big event that's going to take place through the next five months. Starting by tomorrow, June 3rd, a Tech Camp for IT Experts and Transport Experts. The aim of this camp is to come up with problem definitions for the problems of transportation in Cairo. The next stages are for hackers/coders to write software to solve those problems. And as you know, it's a hackathon so there will be prizes for the best solutions ;-) We have an official website/subdomain that you can follow for details: http://transporthack.gdgcairo.org And also, find us on all the social channels by those hashtags: #transporthack #cairo Updates and more information about next stages are going to be announced later. |
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